Abstract: The invention is concerned with the technical field of machines for attaching knit or woven fabric hems to generally knit wearing apparel, and in particular, relates to a machine designed to perform such operations by precision-stitch sewing. To retain a constant match of the loops forming a lower flap in a folded hem with the loops in the upper flap while sewing the hem onto wearing apparel, the machine comprises a sewing assembly with which a hem entraining assembly and feeding assembly for a garment to be sewn are arranged to cooperate, and is characterized in that said entraining assembly includes a pair of entraining members defining a hem passageway therebetween and being kinematically connected to attain substantially equal and oppositely directed peripheral velocities.

Abstract: For orderly threading knit articles, preferably in the form of knit hems, onto the pin holder ring of a linking machine, a device is disclosed which comprises, in a supporting frame associated with the linking machine, a comb-like element having a plurality of coplanar dents arranged facing the ring pins, and arranged tangentially to the pin holder ring and movably associated with the supporting frame. The comb-like element may be connected kinematically to the pin holder ring to achieve a translation speed which is substantially equal to the peripheral rotation speed of the pin holder ring during a knitwork threading stroke. Associated with the supporting frame is a transfer assembly cooperating with the dents of the comb-like element, and an element is provided for picking up one of the knit articles threaded onto the comb-like element to set it into an advanced position on the dents.